Two nightclub workers who urged a 'vulnerable' woman to perform a sex act with a bottle in a street have been warned they face jail.
Bar promoter Karl Macdonald, 29, and manager Shaun Keen, 27, laughed and egged on the drunk 25-year-old as she engaged in the lewd behaviour while lying on the pavement, a court heard.
One of the defendants passed the bottle of water to the woman, telling her to 'sober up', Halton Magistrates Court heard.
She had been ejected from Voodoo, a club in Warrington, Cheshire.
Appalling: Bar manager Shaun Keen (left) and club promoter Karl McDonald (right)
The woman, who has since been convicted for a public decency offence, lay down while three men, including Macdonald and Keen, gathered round.
Some also filmed the incident.
Voices, belonging to the defendants, were heard saying: "Go on, go on."
Keen then goaded her: "You're not trying hard enough."
Convicted: Unemployed Karl McDonald has just served a jail sentence for another offence
During "several hours" outside the nightspot, she performed "erotic dances", "flashed", and "engaged in hi-jinks" before she was recorded performing the sex act, prosecutors said.
One supervisor, watching the incident from an office in Warrington, the hub of all the town's night-time cameras, was heard over the intercom, asking the men: "Are you not enjoying the show, lads?"
The woman, who was handed a conditional discharge, was later said to be 'appalled' by her behaviour.
Yob: Keen was heard saying "you're not trying hard enough"
Keen, then-manager of Voodoo but now a delivery driver, also simulated sex with Miss Booth, the court heard.
Today, the two men, Keen a dad with a three-year-old daughter, and unemployed Macdonald, who has just been released from a 27-week jail sentence, were convicted of inciting someone to outrage public decency.
They will be sentenced next month, with 'all options open,' chairwoman of the bench Joan Duggan said.
Grim: The incident outside of Voodoo was described as a "sad state of affairs"
At a previous hearing, Miss Booth's lawyer said: "People were taking advantage of a woman who was in a vulnerable position.
"Nobody tried to stop this happening and it really is a sad state of affairs.
"She was wholly taken advantage of.
"She has to live with this.
"It's totally out of character and she is appalled by her own behaviour."
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